Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (65 mails)

[James Ogley <riggwelter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Coming a bit late to the party, Magnus asked me to weigh-in.

> First, I think there are two roles in G:C, which is why it's a bit
> difficult to know what to do:
>  + provide packages not in the main repository
>    (eg: last-exit, meld, etc.)

     - Which may be packages "not yet" in the main repo or packages 
       which used to be in the main repo.

>  + provide up-to-date packages for old version of openSUSE
>    (eg, I guess: pidgin, f-spot, etc.)
> I don't think we can keep it both ways. I propose that we use G:C as a
> staging area for Contrib (maybe even rename it to GNOME:Contrib) -- a
> bit like G:F and oS:F. It doesn't mean all packages in G:C are ready for
> Contrib -- but the goal would be to have them all in Contrib in the end.
> (FWIW, I'd find it weird to have something in G:C that we don't want to
> see in Contrib)

I sort-of agree with this but with this suggestion as to how to it might
work:

GNOME:Contrib - a staging area for the Contrib repo.  My understanding
from the discussion is that Contrib is a sort of super-blessed extra
repo (which is why it's version-frozen in the same way as the
corresponding product).  This means that this area has packages that DO
NOT feature in the main repo and have yet to have been agreed to even
make it into Contrib but are being tested for that purpose.

Might it be that packages that are dropped from the main repo could be
moved to Contrib rather than to G:C?

> I also propose we create a GNOME:Backport or whatever to fill the
> second role of the current G:C.

Why not keep it called GNOME:Community to avoid an added layer of
confusion?  It could continue to provide leading-edge version-updates of
software that exists in BOTH the main repo and [GNOME:]Contrib because
having that option open to people is popular as far as I can tell.

> Now, to extend this a bit more: it might make sense to look at all the
> packages in G:F and see which ones are not installed by default. Those
> packages can also be a good start for things we might want to move to
> Contrib.

Along with currently not included packages in G:C.

> Also, I strongly believe we should maintain the packages in G:F, G:C and
> the relevant packages in Contrib the same way, as a team.

Hear hear!
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James Ogley, openSUSE Member: GNOME Team and Planet SUSE.
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